Emilio Castelar

In this biography, Manuel Serrano delves into the figure of Emilio Castelar, the most important Spanish republican of the 19th century. Beyond the topics related to his rhetoric, and which still persist, Castelar was one of the most lucid and respected characters in Spanish politics whose heritage has fallen into radical and unjust oblivion. A statesman and precursor of modernity, he was an intellectual reference for his contemporaries, who saw in him the reference for the achievement of a liberal state. Faithful to his principles, he condemned the attempts of military coups d'état, censured popular riots as forms of political expression, his fight for freedom was accompanied by the defense of legality and the need for authority and defended the existence of a republic. , liberal, democratic and conservative that protected all Spaniards and not just Republicans. He was a convinced Europeanist who, with his words and his writings, contributed to forging European consciousness and the need to face the 20th century with a democratic policy common to the entire old continent.